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ARM Insight to Re-Brand Company – Change Name to Facteus

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Tuesday, March 17, 2020

ARM Insight , the leading provider of actionable insights from financial data, announced today that it will be launching a new brand and will change its name to Facteus .

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  • ARM Insight , the leading provider of actionable insights from financial data, announced today that it will be launching a new brand and will change its name to Facteus .
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200317005170/en/
    Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, the company has operated as ARM Insight for the past ten years.
  • The data industry is rapidly evolving and so are our technology and services, said Randy Koch, CEO of Facteus (formerly ARM Insight).
  • Once the new brand is launched all web traffic from arminsight.com will redirect to Facteus.com and the company will cease use of the ARM Insight name.

Marvell Announces OCTEON TX2 Family of Multi-Core Infrastructure Processors

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Monday, March 2, 2020

SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) today announced OCTEON TX2, the latest family of infrastructure processors targeting a wide variety of wired and wireless networking equipment including switches, routers, secure gateways, firewall, network monitoring, 5G base stations, and smart network interface controllers (NICs).

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  • SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) today announced OCTEON TX2, the latest family of infrastructure processors targeting a wide variety of wired and wireless networking equipment including switches, routers, secure gateways, firewall, network monitoring, 5G base stations, and smart network interface controllers (NICs).
  • The OCTEON TX2 portfolio extends Marvell's industry-leading performance and scalability, delivering a 2.5x improvement over the previous generation and scaling up to 200Gbps of packet processing throughput.
  • Marvell's OCTEON TX2 infrastructure processor family combines up to 36 cores, based on the Arm v8-A architecture with configurable and programmable hardware accelerator blocks, connected by Marvell's field-proven and highly scalable coherent interconnect.
  • "Today's data infrastructure requires significantly faster network throughput and higher end-to-end security at all nodes of the network," said John Sakamoto, vice president of Infrastructure Processor Business Unit at Marvell.

Hex Five Announces MultiZone Security for Arm Cortex‑M Series Processors

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Monday, February 24, 2020

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Feb. 24, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hex Five Security announces the general availability of MultiZone Security for members of the Arm CortexM processor family: a quick and safe way to add security and separation to CortexM devices.

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  • REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Feb. 24, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hex Five Security announces the general availability of MultiZone Security for members of the Arm CortexM processor family: a quick and safe way to add security and separation to CortexM devices.
  • As part of the collaboration with Arm, Hex Five will look to achieve PSA Certified status for MultiZone Security through independent security testing.
  • Through this partnership with Hex Five, MultiZone enables GigaDevice MCU users who require enhanced security to effortlessly add hardware-grade security to the GD32 ARM Cortex-M based devices without additional hardware."
  • Hex Five Security is the creator of MultiZone Security.

Audio Weaver, the Industry Standard for Embedded Audio Processing, Attracts Series B investment from Sony, Porsche, ARM IoT Fund and More, Led by Taiwania Capital

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Friday, February 21, 2020

The round is led by Taiwania Capital and includes Series A lead investor BMW i Ventures as well as new investors, Sony Innovation Fund by Innovation Growth Ventures, MediaTek Ventures, Porsche Ventures and the ARM IoT Fund.

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  • The round is led by Taiwania Capital and includes Series A lead investor BMW i Ventures as well as new investors, Sony Innovation Fund by Innovation Growth Ventures, MediaTek Ventures, Porsche Ventures and the ARM IoT Fund.
  • DSP Concepts also works with several chip partners to provide efficient audio product deployment and peak voice recognition performance for various applications using different hardware architectures.
  • By using the Audio Weaver platform, product makers can now easily deploy audio features and designs on ST Micro, MediaTek, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, NXP and others.
  • Taiwania Capital Fund Managing Partner, Huang Lee, stated, "We have been continually impressed by DSP Concepts through our due diligence process.

Ultra-Low Power and Security for IoT Come First on New STM32L5 Microcontrollers from STMicroelectronics

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Thursday, February 13, 2020

Operating at clock frequencies to 110MHz, the STM32L5-series MCUs start from the Arm Cortex-M33 32-bit RISC core with Arm TrustZone hardware-based security.

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  • Operating at clock frequencies to 110MHz, the STM32L5-series MCUs start from the Arm Cortex-M33 32-bit RISC core with Arm TrustZone hardware-based security.
  • With this attention to security, the STM32L5 has been certified to PSA Certified Level 2.
  • As IoT and embedded devices increase in intelligence and functionality, security must be built in from the ground up, said Thomas Ensergueix, senior director, Automotive and IoT Line of Business at Arm.
  • STM32 is a registered and/or unregistered trademark of STMicroelectronics International NV or its affiliates in the EU and/or elsewhere.

New AI Technology From Arm Delivers Unprecedented On-Device Intelligence for IoT

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Monday, February 10, 2020

Enabling AI everywhere requires device makers and developers to deliver machine learning locally on billions, and ultimately trillions of devices, said Dipti Vachani, senior vice president and general manager, Automotive and IoT Line of Business, Arm.

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  • Enabling AI everywhere requires device makers and developers to deliver machine learning locally on billions, and ultimately trillions of devices, said Dipti Vachani, senior vice president and general manager, Automotive and IoT Line of Business, Arm.
  • Additionally, Arm Custom Instructions will be available to extend processor capabilities for specific workload optimization, a new feature for Cortex-M processors.
  • Read more about how it will bring AI to billions more in this blog from Dipti Vachani, senior vice president and general manager, Automotive and IoT Line of Business, Arm.
  • Arm technology is at the heart of a computing and connectivity revolution that is transforming the way people live and businesses operate.

Crank Software and NXP Make it Easier to Build Exceptional UIs for Embedded Devices with Latest MCUXpresso SDK Release

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Thursday, January 30, 2020

The latest release of the NXP MCUXpresso software development kit (SDK) includes Crank Storyboard, providing NXP customers with direct and easy access to UI development resources for faster time to market.

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  • The latest release of the NXP MCUXpresso software development kit (SDK) includes Crank Storyboard, providing NXP customers with direct and easy access to UI development resources for faster time to market.
  • The NXP MCUXpresso SDK is a comprehensive software enablement package designed to simplify and accelerate application development with NXPs microcontrollers based on Arm Cortex-M cores.
  • Our mission with Storyboard was to make the world of embedded graphics easier, said Brian Edmond, President of Crank Software.
  • We are happy to include Crank Software within our MCUXpresso SDK, said Joe Yu, vice president and general manager of low-power MPU and MCUs at NXP.

Arm Mali-G77 GPU Named Best Processor IP in The Linley Group’s Analysts’ Choice Awards

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Monday, January 20, 2020

Today, Arm has announced that the Arm Mali-G77 GPU has been named the winner of the Best Processor IP category in The Linley Groups Analysts Choice Awards 2019.

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  • Today, Arm has announced that the Arm Mali-G77 GPU has been named the winner of the Best Processor IP category in The Linley Groups Analysts Choice Awards 2019.
  • The annual awards recognize the top semiconductor offerings of the year in seven distinct categories: AI accelerators, embedded processors, mobile processors, server/PC processors, processor-IP cores, networking chips, and best technology.
  • Among the many IP cores we considered for our 2019 Analysts Choice Award, the Mali-G77 stands out for its numerous architectural improvements, said Mike Demler, Senior Analyst at The Linley Group.
  • Arm technology is at the heart of a computing and connectivity revolution that is transforming the way people live and businesses operate.

Socionext Collaborates with Foxconn and Network Optix to Deliver Intelligent and Scalable Edge-AI Solutions for Retail and Manufacturing Markets

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Tuesday, January 7, 2020

The newly launched solutions are powered by a scalable, 24-core Arm Cortex-A53 SoC offering exceptional CPU performance, which provides excellentprocessing speed and power-savings.

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  • The newly launched solutions are powered by a scalable, 24-core Arm Cortex-A53 SoC offering exceptional CPU performance, which provides excellentprocessing speed and power-savings.
  • In order to support additional computational off-loading of real-time applications, Foxconn will be pre-installing the Network Optix's Witness VMS to the BOXiedge server for better optimization.
  • "Socionext is taking a unique approach to solving the challenges of creating lightweight but powerful AI-enabled hardware with their advanced SoC solutions.
  • Socionext aims to continually expand its current ecosystem of partners and introduce solutions to help in the growing mobile, edge and cloud computing markets.

Siemens partners with Arm to accelerate the future of mobility by redefining design capabilities for complex electronic systems

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Monday, January 6, 2020

Key advances in computing and sensor technology are enabling companies to redefine mobility beginning with the integrated circuits and software within automotive electronics systems.

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  • Key advances in computing and sensor technology are enabling companies to redefine mobility beginning with the integrated circuits and software within automotive electronics systems.
  • The combination of Siemens' and Arm's innovative technologies can help automakers and suppliers deliver tomorrow's electronic design and automotive solutions, today.
  • Siemens' PAVE360 digital twin environment, featuring Arm IP, applies high-fidelity modeling techniques from sensors and ICs to vehicle dynamics and the environment within which a vehicle operates.
  • "Developing future transportation solutions requires collaboration across complex ecosystems," said Dipti Vachani, senior vice president and general manager, Automotive and IoT Line of Business, Arm.